National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0234
Original release date:04/14/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 does not properly validate a registry-key argument to an unspecified system call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted application, aka "Windows Kernel Null Pointer Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-103A
Name: TA10-103A
External Source: MS
Name: MS10-021
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023850
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39374
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39373
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6814
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6814
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
